DrBats Data Simulation and Projection

(see list of authors below)

2016-12-05

Overview

This document is part of the “DrBats” project whose goal is to implement exploratory statistical analysis on large sets of data with uncertainty. The idea is to visualize the results of the analysis in a way that explicitely illustrates the uncertainty in the data.

The “DrBats” project applies a Bayesian Latent Factor Model.

This project involves the following persons, listed in alphabetical order :

The parameters b.range and c.range dictate the location of two peaks, and b.sd and c.sd the variance of the peaks. Once the signals have been simulated, the function samples observation times over the range of possible times t.range. Few times are chosen in b.range and c.range, and many are chosen outside these ranges.

The parameter data.type specifies the type of signal to simulate: sparse will simulate a bi-modal signal that is flat between the modes. The sparse.tend option will simulate bi-modal signals with a trend, and the sparse.tend.cos will simulate periodic bi-modal signals with a trend.

To project onto the histogram basis, we use the function histoProj() where we specify the matrix of observation times, the range of observation times on which to construct the basis, and the number of breaks.